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[nonethefewer]

GreenPrint: "GreenPrint eliminates wasteful pages in any printout automatically, saving you time and money, and maybe more importantly, saving trees, reducing greenhouse gasses, and decreasing waste.

GreenPrint's patent-pending technology does this by analyzing each page of every document sent to the printer and looking for typical waste characteristics (like that last page with just a URL, banner ad, logo, or legal jargon)."

See a demo.  It wants to use sound, but you can get the same thing out of it by clicking the slider bar and scrolling along to see how it works.  Apparently, it also tracks how much money you've saved by using this product.  It says that the average user saves $90 per year, which more than makes up for the $35 cost of the product.

I don't plan to use it, but only because I am positively fanatic about not using more paper when less would do, when I print at all.  (CutePDF, a freeware product that allows you to print to .pdf, helps with this.)

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I suppose GreenPrint meets some kind of demand, but I'm slightly boggled that there exist people who haven't figured that "print preview" will let them print only the pages containing information they actually want to print.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

1) Man, I read the internet, which is full of people who apparently can't waste the 10 seconds to preview something they wrote before posting it.  I am all kinds of cynical about people in this regard.

2) When I am less cynical, I figure that it might just be that people don't think of reducing paper or being careful about printing, and this is a focus thing, or awareness thing, so that's okay.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

#1. Well, yeah. But that doesn't make it less bogglesome.
#2. Point.